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hexadecimal or base-16 - a counting system in which each digit can take on one of 16 values, usually using the symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. Often used in computer programming because each digit maps directly to a group of 4 binary digits (bits).

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Hexadecimal two's Complement

Ignacio showed the shortcut: sign-extension. What you attempted is OK too, and it shows that you try to understand the process: convert to a 'plain value' then convert back to two's complement. But y …
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Need help with digital arithmetic

For your processor, the 8 bits in a value can be interpreted in two ways: as an unsigned number, range 0 .. 255 as a 2s-complement number, range -128 .. +127 (There are other ways an 8-bit value c …
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